Quotes of: Western-countries Keyword

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

Wendell Willkie

We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.

William Westmoreland

If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.

William Wyler

Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.

Yusuf Hamied

Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons.

Yoshiro Mori

I did not become president to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and preserve our country, our people, that is why I became president.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

It's not so weird that four generations are living together under the same roof and trying to make it work. It's how a lot of people in this country are living right now.

Martha Plimpton

We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.

Ted Danson

What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest.

Tom Hodgkinson

If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

Hillary Clinton

I didn't know there was such a thing as professional soccer, but I knew that Brazil had a women's team that competed against other countries, and I wanted to be on that team.

Marta

As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.

Pema Chodron

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

Alice Walker

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

Chief Joseph

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.

Carolyn McCarthy

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

Pat Buchanan

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

Sebastian Coe

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Toni Morrison

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

Ted Turner

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

Uzo Aduba

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

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